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Document that the string returned by strerror(3) contains a maximum of

NL_TEXTMAX characters.
OPENBSD_2_8
aaron 24 years ago
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\" .\"
.\" $OpenBSD: strerror.3,v 1.3 1999/05/23 14:11:03 aaron Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: strerror.3,v 1.4 2000/10/23 19:14:41 aaron Exp $
.\" .\"
.Dd June 29, 1991 .Dd June 29, 1991
.Dt STRERROR 3 .Dt STRERROR 3
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The The
.Fn strerror .Fn strerror
function returns a pointer to the language-dependent error message function returns a pointer to the language-dependent error message
string affiliated with an error number.
string affiliated with the specified error number
.Fa errnum .
The returned string contains a maximum of
.Dv NL_TEXTMAX
characters, including the trailing NUL.
.Pp .Pp
The array pointed to is not to be modified by the program, but may be The array pointed to is not to be modified by the program, but may be
overwritten by subsequent calls to overwritten by subsequent calls to


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